Earth Science Concepts: Plate Tectonics

the idea that continents move around on Earth's surface.

• plate tectonics
• earthquake
• continental drift
• volcanic eruption

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an ancient super made of the landmasses we know as our present day continents

• Atlantis
• Laurasia
• Pangaea
• Gondwana

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A theory explaining how the tectonic plates (or lithosphere plates) on earth's surface move

• Volcanic Eruptions
• Plate Tectonics
• Earthquakes
• Continental Drift

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a hypothesis that new molten material is erupting from mid ocean ridge.

• mid ocean ridge

• sea floor spreading

• Partially true
• Unknown

Answer explanation

a hypothesis that new molten material is erupting from mid ocean ridge.

the plates where these plates meet are called plate bboundaries

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The area of the Earth that makes up the crust and the upper portion of the mantle.

• plate boundaries
• lithosphere

• boundary lines
• tectonic boundaries

answer the 4 questions down below

• the process of one tectonic plate sliding beneath another

• continental plates
• tectonic plates that make up the continents

• subduction
• boundaries where tectonic plates slide past each other horizontally

• oceanic plates

• tectonic plates that make up the ocean floor

• convergent boundaries

• boundaries where tectonic plates collide or come together

• transform boundaries

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Match the following

continental plates -

subductions -

Divergent boundary -

convergent boundary -

transform fault boundary -

• thick lithosphere plates that are made of andesite and granite and form contients

• A process that involves a lithosphere plate sinking into the mantle.

• A lithosphere plate boundary where 2 plates move apart

• A lithosphere plate boundary where 2 plates come together

• A lithosphere plate boundary where 2 plates slide by each other

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What kind of boundary is shown here?

• convergent

• divergent

• transform

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What kind of boundary is shown here?

• divergent

• convergent

• transform

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What is happening here?

• divergent boundary, subduction

• convergent boundary, volcano

• transform boundary, trench

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